Privacy Policy

Global Affairs Analytics is committed to ensuring your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the instances where Global Affairs Analytics might collect, use and process your personal data, how it is used, and what is done to keep it safe. By using this site, you agree to our terms of use, including our conditions of use and privacy policy. Global Affairs Analytics, the website's owner, reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using the website.

The information Global Affairs Analytics collects:

When you visit our website

When you visit Global Affairs Analytics’ website, we collect anonymized information through cookies that improve your experience while navigating through the website. Necessary cookies are stored in your browser, and third-party cookies help us analyze and understand how you use the website. Your consent is required to store these cookies in your browser. The cookie disclaimer at the bottom of your screen provides information on the cookies we set.

External services

Our website may link to external websites or applications that process some of the personal data you provide while interacting with our website. Global Affairs Analytics ensures that any third-party services we use have privacy policies in line with our commitments to you under this policy. Global Affairs Analytics will never ask for your personal access credentials for any external platform.

When you interact with Global Affairs Analytics

When you apply for a job, opportunity or internship, Global Affairs Analytics collects information necessary to process applications (such as those for jobs or volunteer roles) and assess your suitability for these. Global Affairs Analytics may also collect information such as employment status, previous experience depending on the context, as well as any unspent criminal convictions or pending court cases you may have, any equalities and diversity monitoring information that you have chosen to give us and any other personal information you might provide to us. Information about unsuccessful applicants is deleted after six months.

When you work with Global Affairs Analytics as an employee, consultant, advisor, contracting party, or partner, we are required by law to keep your employee information for up to seven years after the end of the contract.

When you sign up for a Global Affairs Analytics newsletter or other communication, we collect some basic personal data directly from you, along with your contact preferences. Global Affairs Analytics uses Mailchimp or other similar services to manage our subscriber lists. You can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of all emails.

When you sign up for an event or use one of our contact forms, we collect some basic personal data directly from you. In the case of events, we may use participant management platforms such as Lu.ma or Eventbrite. Your IP address may also be collected and stored for up to six months.

When you participate in an online event, you may be invited to enter basic personal information such as your name and email address, which then become available to the platform we’re using to stream the event.

If you are a partner of Global Affairs Analytics and/or participate in one of our projects, we collect the basic information we need for this, such as contact information, general personal information, and anything necessary for the specific project.

Sensitive personal data

Global Affairs Analytics does not collect sensitive personal data such as personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, disability status, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or sexual and gender identity via our website.

Do we share your data with anyone outside Global Affairs Analytics?

Global Affairs Analytics does not share personal data from our website with third parties such as marketing and research companies, fundraisers, or other charities. The only parties who would ever have access to your data are those organizations we use to help us to process data to carry out our objectives, as well as our partner organizations (e.g. in the case of an event organized jointly with a partner organization).

How Global Affairs Analytics keeps your data safe

Global Affairs Analytics' email system, file storage system, and related IT services are hosted by providers that ensure the highest security standards available when it comes to data storage. Moreover, we strive to make sure that our staff members nurture healthy cyber-security habits and enforce essential security features such as two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever possible.

We regularly ensure that the security practices of the third-party services we use are in line with this policy. We are particularly attached to making sure that any sensitive information, if stored, is encrypted to the highest standards.

How can you access the data we hold on you?

You may be entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email any requests, questions or complaints to data@gaanalytics.com. More information is available about your rights to view, amend or delete your personal data on the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Why do we collect and use data?

For legal and administrative reasons. On some occasions, we will need to keep information you have given us for legal reasons. We may use this to contact you for reasons related to:

Administering any services you have requested
Administering your payments and tax status if applicable
The completion of other transactions you have entered into
Handling recruitment and shortlisting job applications
For communications, marketing, event organization and stakeholder engagement reasons

We may also use your details to contact you sometime in the future by post, phone, email or SMS to tell you about our work and/or big projects we think you might want to know more about.

Our policy is to contact you only where we have the relevant permissions. This is in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations (PECR) and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). All our emails will offer you the chance to decline future emails and you can update your preferences at any time simply by emailing data@gaanalytics.com.

For research, analysis and reporting to clients

The information we gather helps us to understand how our services are performing, as well as helping us to target relevant people with our online advertising. Any information collected for research, analysis and reporting is anonymised.

Updated on 20 Jan 2022